Safety-pin



A. BOGDAHN.

- SAFETY PIN. APPLICATION FILED NOV. I2, 19]].

1,315,755. I Pat ntedSept. 9,1919.

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ATTORNEY ANTON BCGDAHN, 0F WESTBROOK, MAINE.

SAFETY-.IIN. at

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed November 12, 1917. Serial No. 201,530.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON BOGDAHN, a citizen of Germany, residing at Westbrook, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety pins and its object is to produce a pin that is simple in construction, positive and eflicient in operation. With the foregoingand other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which- Figure 1 is aview of my improved pin in side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a cross section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My improved safety pin comprises a shield made of a single piece of material having a rounded closed end 1, a closed flat side 2 and an open side opposite the closed side, said open side being formed by the two ends of the metal piece forming the shield, one end 3 of the metal being bent outwardly to form a lip 4: and the other end being bent inwardly or toward the side 2 and spaced from the lip 4. The inwardly bent end of the metal comprises a tongue 5 from which a spur 6 is bent outwardly or toward the lip 1. The sides 3 and 2 of the shield are connected by the shield edges 7, 8 and from the shield-edge '7, upon opposite sides of the longitudinal center of said edge, a portion of the metal is partly punched out and the free ends of said punched portions bent toward each other to form prongs 9, 10 which are bent about one end of the pin wire 11 to retain the same firmly inengagement with the shield. The pin wire is formed with the usual coils 12 and terminates in the pointed end 13 which is adapted to be forced between the lip 4 and tongue 5 to open or close the pin. In closed position the pointed end of the in lies upon the shield-edge 8 and is yieldingly retained to this position by the tongue 5 and spur 6. When the pin is in open position it may be closed by manually raising its pointed end, against the tension of the coil 12, into a position-between the lip 4 and tongue 5. The coil will now operate to force the pin point between said lip and tongue and past the spur 6 between which and the free end of the tongue '5 it will lodge, its position then being that illustrated in Fig. 2. To open the pin the tongue 5 is manually forced away from the lip 4 until the spur 6 clears the pin wire. The pointed end of the pin is now raised over the lip 4 into open posit1on.

What is claimed is In a safety pin, a shield formed of a single piece of resilient material having its end forming a lip and a tongue s aced away from each other, said tongue being bent inwardly with respect to said lip and spaced away therefrom, a spur formed in said tongue and bent toward said lip, a pin wire formed with a coil and terminating in a pointed end adapted for insertionmanually between said lip and tongue to permit said coil to drive it over said spur and into frictional engagement with the same and with said tongue by which members it is yieldingly impaled against the edge of the shield, and pin-wire retaining means integral with said shield.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my slgnature in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

ANTON BO DAHN.

Witnesses:

CONRAD KELLER, WILLIAM Lyons.

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